January 12, 2026 • 8 mins
Disaster McMaster cites frustration around getting a medical certificate for a bull to go to the works.
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Speaker 1 (00:08):
Grand Disaster McMaster Farms on the edge of Lake Waker
Tip at closer In Station was brought to us by
the team at RB Rural Disaster.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, and good afternoon to everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good to chat again. How have you been over the
past three weeks or so?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, three weeks and were and seems though halfway through
that through January we're not far off at any But no,
I had had a bit of a break at Christmas,
just didn't go anywhere, just sort of dealing with we're
trying to get crop done and what have you, the
usual bit of ailage and what have you. So no
good time to just be at home around Queency on
(00:44):
this time of the year, because it's ay, the weather
hasn't been great and there's been quite a lot of
traffic ground. But so yeah, fifty miles since the beginning
of January, so things are. Things are just carrying on
they were the end of last year.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Do you know what your total rainfall ended up for
last year? Grunt?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know, I don't off the top of my head,
but I'll find that out for for next week. But
as I say, we've had we've had fifty meals already
and there were twenty eight meals that was on Saturday night.
It got quite sundry and it was sort of an
electrical storm and thirteen sort of the day before, a
couple of days before that. But it's, yeah, I've never
(01:22):
seen that. It's still basically as green as when we
spoke three weeks ago around the basin, and nobody can
remember it being like like it is. So it's it's
we're voting well for the for going into the wonder
for that that's.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
For real now waning and that has been and gone.
Crouching other likes, what what's I'm on the work agenda
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, no, no, Wanings not until the twenty third yeah,
directed yeah, no that yeah, So when then and the
user when then? Then we've got a couple of weeks
and that's our dog trials and so push the us
out of the way for that and then bring them
back in and we'll we'll share them. We'll second share
(02:03):
them along with the U lambs that will have out.
So yeah, the price of lambs looking pretty good. The
lambs and the paddocks look, you know, they look okay,
they're on you know, they're on pretty good, good feed
for us. But I think the sun could be that
or the lack of sunshine might be just a telling
fact that I think they will probably be a bit hard.
But you know, sometimes they look really good, but again
(02:26):
a bit washed out of time, so you don't really
know how you get them into the yards. But there's
you know, they they're looking okay, and it's good to
be winning when the prices are quite good.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
There's the issue down there's the issue here in the
South disaster is that you're either got a feast or
famine regarding the weather. A lot of people have had
enough rain to keep them going, but yes, again a
lot of pockets that are missing out. So this micro
climate we talk about it continues, Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And but you know this classic example is between close
Friend Station and thirty k's away at Aratown and we're
we've got would normally double what we get what we
get a close brand. You could have that for Aratown
and sometimes not as much. But this year it's you know,
Aratown has been getting been giving the good rains and
so we got to we've got to manasact the new
(03:14):
grass and the kale on the fifth of January. It
was all ready to go, just you know, right right
on Christmas and you know it's come up well that
the paddocks came up well, got it in and then
we've had a bit of rain. Nothing's popping out yet,
but you know, the timing for that's been been quite good,
considering was a bit later getting it in. So it's
(03:34):
certainly the nature's playing ball at this stage. Andy.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That dis ked. So we spoke to you before Christmas
about unless you're regarding certificates of getting animals away to
the works, you've got the systance with the ball that
keeps on giving sadly, and the only.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
People that are making any money out of this ball
at the moment are the vets. So we spake earlier
on about trying to get animals away and need needing
a certificate. So got the certificate. He got the all
clear of this ball, you know, a breeding ball. He's
about seven or eight years old. Got the lame in
one leg and he was quite lame, and you know
(04:10):
he's got better, so no doubt. You know, he's not
galloping around, although he can crop pretty boody fast. So anyway,
we got the all clear to get that ball away
from the vets. And for some reason, my mate's down
at Mataram. I thought I would get off a day
earlier and we couldn't get him killed. But that's probably
because Timsey's trying to keep hunting all those guys under control,
and oh it's like Timsy. But anyway, so I got
(04:34):
so the ball. Actually he was in in a block
and gates roping, and he just wandered a way back
around the other side of the station and he went
to a half k along the track and down the
all of it. So I got him back and got
the because we had some space for him, got the
vet back out. He said, I'll just I'll just send
(04:54):
the video down to the works, to the vet at Matara.
And so remember he'd walked, he'd walked to on a
half case, and when he actually walked five cases, walked
to a half round and two and a half back
and still couldn't go because he wasn't standing square. So
I find that it's just so bloody frustrating and and
(05:19):
just there's no rhyme the reason of that. Yet the
bull's got a sore leg. The ball walked five case
for God's sake, and still can't go. So you know,
I don't know what you do. It's it sounds because
it's happening to me, it sounds like a big deal,
but it happens to a lot of a lot of people,
and I just I just can't you know, there's no rhyme,
(05:39):
no reason for that.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Do you just think there's too much over zealous policing
as such of what needs to go to the works
from a bit's perspective, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And as I said the other or last year, I said,
you know, if the balls an animal's got a broken leg, bang,
you don't muck around with you put it down. Now,
something that can walk, and you know he's and he
wasn't just walking. He was cantering around when he hit
there was some for some of the hippers. So I
mean he to walk two and a half gas around
(06:13):
and then come another two and a half Ka's and
my and my reasoning that's five k's well he and
because he can't stand square, he's not allowed to go
down to the down to the university. So yeah, it's
just what's wrong. And I don't know what you do
about it. And I guess you know, to be to
your point andy, you probably don't do anything because the
(06:33):
rules and regulations are so bloody's stupid at times. You know,
common sense the least common of all the senses.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Do you think regulation though we've seen it recently regarding
the ary maze and the lights you're looking at it,
are you thinking more positive regarding getting on the farm
and just getting on with stuff all things considered?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Though, definitely, I think it's you know, it's really positive
and and I think you know it's long over journe.
No one would disagree with that, So no, no, that
that direction, we're going well, and you know things have
certainly shattled down, and I certainly don't think there's the
empty farm and sentiment that was out there beforehand or
that we perceived anyway, And so that respect, it's it's
(07:14):
really good and I think, you know, it's a lot
to be positive about. You know, as I just said before,
the store of the price of store lambs are looking
good for us for a change. But then you know,
just got some bailage made the other day and the
price that hasn't come back, and it's it's just you're
just sort of the tail sort of wagging the dog.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Isn't it absolutely ground. We'll let you carry on the
other grand kids with you, so go always good to connect.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah good, and let's look forward to another a good
new year and hope everyone had a good Christmas and
things are going well. And as you know, it's sees
a long way without a turnt and farming and just
getting a ball always at the end of the world.
But if anybody's got some ideas and we could want
to get Laurie's Patterson onto this.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
One, get on your grind catch up again.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, talk so.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Ground Disaster McMaster each and every week. Thanks for a
team at Abbi Rural. This is the Muster and Hakanui
up next from Open Country Cody Peterson
Grand Disaster McMaster Farms on the edge of Lake Waker
Tip at closer In Station was brought to us by
the team at RB Rural Disaster.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Good afternoon, Good afternoon, Andy, and good afternoon to everybody.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
Good to chat again. How have you been over the
past three weeks or so?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, three weeks and were and seems though halfway through
that through January we're not far off at any But no,
I had had a bit of a break at Christmas,
just didn't go anywhere, just sort of dealing with we're
trying to get crop done and what have you, the
usual bit of ailage and what have you. So no
good time to just be at home around Queency on
(00:44):
this time of the year, because it's ay, the weather
hasn't been great and there's been quite a lot of
traffic ground. But so yeah, fifty miles since the beginning
of January, so things are. Things are just carrying on
they were the end of last year.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Do you know what your total rainfall ended up for
last year? Grunt?
Speaker 2 (01:02):
I know, I don't off the top of my head,
but I'll find that out for for next week. But
as I say, we've had we've had fifty meals already
and there were twenty eight meals that was on Saturday night.
It got quite sundry and it was sort of an
electrical storm and thirteen sort of the day before, a
couple of days before that. But it's, yeah, I've never
(01:22):
seen that. It's still basically as green as when we
spoke three weeks ago around the basin, and nobody can
remember it being like like it is. So it's it's
we're voting well for the for going into the wonder
for that that's.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
For real now waning and that has been and gone.
Crouching other likes, what what's I'm on the work agenda
at the moment.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, no, no, Wanings not until the twenty third yeah,
directed yeah, no that yeah, So when then and the
user when then? Then we've got a couple of weeks
and that's our dog trials and so push the us
out of the way for that and then bring them
back in and we'll we'll share them. We'll second share
(02:03):
them along with the U lambs that will have out.
So yeah, the price of lambs looking pretty good. The
lambs and the paddocks look, you know, they look okay,
they're on you know, they're on pretty good, good feed
for us. But I think the sun could be that
or the lack of sunshine might be just a telling
fact that I think they will probably be a bit hard.
But you know, sometimes they look really good, but again
(02:26):
a bit washed out of time, so you don't really
know how you get them into the yards. But there's
you know, they they're looking okay, and it's good to
be winning when the prices are quite good.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
There's the issue down there's the issue here in the
South disaster is that you're either got a feast or
famine regarding the weather. A lot of people have had
enough rain to keep them going, but yes, again a
lot of pockets that are missing out. So this micro
climate we talk about it continues, Yeah, it does.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
And but you know this classic example is between close
Friend Station and thirty k's away at Aratown and we're
we've got would normally double what we get what we
get a close brand. You could have that for Aratown
and sometimes not as much. But this year it's you know,
Aratown has been getting been giving the good rains and
so we got to we've got to manasact the new
(03:14):
grass and the kale on the fifth of January. It
was all ready to go, just you know, right right
on Christmas and you know it's come up well that
the paddocks came up well, got it in and then
we've had a bit of rain. Nothing's popping out yet,
but you know, the timing for that's been been quite good,
considering was a bit later getting it in. So it's
(03:34):
certainly the nature's playing ball at this stage. Andy.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That dis ked. So we spoke to you before Christmas
about unless you're regarding certificates of getting animals away to
the works, you've got the systance with the ball that
keeps on giving sadly, and the only.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
People that are making any money out of this ball
at the moment are the vets. So we spake earlier
on about trying to get animals away and need needing
a certificate. So got the certificate. He got the all
clear of this ball, you know, a breeding ball. He's
about seven or eight years old. Got the lame in
one leg and he was quite lame, and you know
(04:10):
he's got better, so no doubt. You know, he's not
galloping around, although he can crop pretty boody fast. So anyway,
we got the all clear to get that ball away
from the vets. And for some reason, my mate's down
at Mataram. I thought I would get off a day
earlier and we couldn't get him killed. But that's probably
because Timsey's trying to keep hunting all those guys under control,
and oh it's like Timsy. But anyway, so I got
(04:34):
so the ball. Actually he was in in a block
and gates roping, and he just wandered a way back
around the other side of the station and he went
to a half k along the track and down the
all of it. So I got him back and got
the because we had some space for him, got the
vet back out. He said, I'll just I'll just send
(04:54):
the video down to the works, to the vet at Matara.
And so remember he'd walked, he'd walked to on a
half case, and when he actually walked five cases, walked
to a half round and two and a half back
and still couldn't go because he wasn't standing square. So
I find that it's just so bloody frustrating and and
(05:19):
just there's no rhyme the reason of that. Yet the
bull's got a sore leg. The ball walked five case
for God's sake, and still can't go. So you know,
I don't know what you do. It's it sounds because
it's happening to me, it sounds like a big deal,
but it happens to a lot of a lot of people,
and I just I just can't you know, there's no rhyme,
(05:39):
no reason for that.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Do you just think there's too much over zealous policing
as such of what needs to go to the works
from a bit's perspective, Yeah, I do.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
And as I said the other or last year, I said,
you know, if the balls an animal's got a broken leg, bang,
you don't muck around with you put it down. Now,
something that can walk, and you know he's and he
wasn't just walking. He was cantering around when he hit
there was some for some of the hippers. So I
mean he to walk two and a half gas around
(06:13):
and then come another two and a half Ka's and
my and my reasoning that's five k's well he and
because he can't stand square, he's not allowed to go
down to the down to the university. So yeah, it's
just what's wrong. And I don't know what you do
about it. And I guess you know, to be to
your point andy, you probably don't do anything because the
(06:33):
rules and regulations are so bloody's stupid at times. You know,
common sense the least common of all the senses.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Do you think regulation though we've seen it recently regarding
the ary maze and the lights you're looking at it,
are you thinking more positive regarding getting on the farm
and just getting on with stuff all things considered?
Speaker 2 (06:50):
Though, definitely, I think it's you know, it's really positive
and and I think you know it's long over journe.
No one would disagree with that, So no, no, that
that direction, we're going well, and you know things have
certainly shattled down, and I certainly don't think there's the
empty farm and sentiment that was out there beforehand or
that we perceived anyway, And so that respect, it's it's
(07:14):
really good and I think, you know, it's a lot
to be positive about. You know, as I just said before,
the store of the price of store lambs are looking
good for us for a change. But then you know,
just got some bailage made the other day and the
price that hasn't come back, and it's it's just you're
just sort of the tail sort of wagging the dog.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Isn't it absolutely ground. We'll let you carry on the
other grand kids with you, so go always good to connect.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Yeah good, and let's look forward to another a good
new year and hope everyone had a good Christmas and
things are going well. And as you know, it's sees
a long way without a turnt and farming and just
getting a ball always at the end of the world.
But if anybody's got some ideas and we could want
to get Laurie's Patterson onto this.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
One, get on your grind catch up again.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
Yeah, talk so.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
Ground Disaster McMaster each and every week. Thanks for a
team at Abbi Rural. This is the Muster and Hakanui
up next from Open Country Cody Peterson
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